Offering the most reliable, interesting, and up-to-date resources for students,teachers,and researchers of aerodynamics. New to this edition are sections on airplane lift and drag, the blended-wing-body concept, the origin of the swept-wing concept, supersonic flow over cones, hypersonic viscous flow and aerodynamic heating, and the design of hypersonic waverider configurations, among others. Contents Ch. 1: Aerodynamics: Some Introductory Thoughts Ch. 2: Aerodynamics: Some Fundamental Principles and Equations Ch. 3: Fundamentals of Inviscid, Incompressible Flow Ch. 4: Incompressible Flow over Airfoils Ch. 5: Incompressible Flow over Finite Wings Ch. 6: Three-Dimensional Incompressible Flow Ch. 7: Compressible Flow: Some Preliminary Aspects Ch. 8: Normal Shock Waves and Related Topics Ch. 9: Oblique Shock and Expansion Waves Ch. 10: Compressible Flow Through Nozzles, Diffusers, and Wind Tunnels Ch. 11: Subsonic Compressible Flow over Airfoils: Linear Theory Ch. 12: Linearized Supersonic Flow Ch. 13: Introduction to Numerical Techniques for Nonlinear Supersonic Flow Ch. 14: Elements of Hypersonic Flow Ch. 15: Introduction to the Fundamental Principles and Equations of Viscous Flow Ch. 16: Some Special Cases; Couette and Poiseuille Flows Ch. 17: Introduction to Boundary Layers Ch. 18: Laminar Boundary Layers Ch. 19: Turbulent Boundary Layers Ch. 20: Navier-Stokes Solutions: Some Examples